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ERR_Moody
@emoody.bsky.social
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Computational Evolutionary Biologist. Focusing on deep nodes in the tree of life. University of Barcelona https://linktr.ee/err_moody
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, here now but looking for somewhere to live! I should hopefully be around in November, let's chat! I'll DM you
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · 6d
Excited to announce I have officially joined the University of Barcelona for my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship! I'll be working with Jesus Lozano Fernandez in the DeepEvo lab at the @geneticsub.bsky.social, on various deep nodes in the tree of life!
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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · Sep 3
🧵In collaboration with Caroline Puente-Lelievre, Ed Moody, Rosie Cater, and Tom Williams we just submitted a new paper describing the prokaryotic origins of the COMMD protein family. @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social‬, ‪@rosemaryjcater.bsky.social‬. @kmichie.bsky.social‬. 1/n
The prokaryotic origins of the COMMD protein family involved in eukaryotic membrane trafficking
The ten eukaryotic COMMD proteins are core components of the Commander complex, with central roles in endosomal membrane trafficking and signalling. Each protein has an α-helical N-terminal (HN) domai...
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Aug 15
Congratulations!
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Romain Strock @romainstrock.bsky.social · Aug 15
This first-author publication is my… first! Archaea kill bacteria by targeting their Achilles’ heel: peptidoglycan. Big shoutout to @ahocher.bsky.social‬, @valeriesoo.bsky.social‬, Pauline Misson, @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social‬ and MRC LMS Proteomics. A thread 🔽
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Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria
Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · Aug 11
The proceedings volume from our Nov24 meeting on the evolution of biospheres is just in PhilTransB @royalsocietypublishing.org delivering insights into how our biosphere evolved - and how other biospheres may evolve
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1931
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Aug 12
Using gene tree-species tree reconcilation, molecular clocks and metabolic pathway analysis to infer with a fully dated and metabolated 😎 tree of life! Our results seems to suggest fairly rapid evolution of the total metabolic network, with a more gradual increase towards the present (2/2)
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Aug 12
Very happy to announce our new paper on the evolution of metabolism is out now! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

With @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Tim Lenton and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

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The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
We investigate the evolution of microbial metabolisms from the last universal common ancestor to the extant biota through comparative phylogenomics, reconciling the evolution of the genes that underpi...
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Kim Chandler @kimchandler.bsky.social · Aug 6
Great to see some nice news articles out about the new display we've been working on @dublindeadzoo.bsky.social ! 🦓🐢🐇🦥🦇

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
New lease of life: Dead Zoo Lab brings back beloved Natural History Museum collection
Collins Barracks is displaying about 1,300 objects while original Merrion Street location undergoes refurbishment
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Jul 1
Our paper on VPS29 is out now! Pleased to have been part of the team: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Identification of a VPS29 isoform with restricted association to Retriever and Retromer accessory proteins through autoinhibition | PNAS
The endosomal–lysosomal network is a hub of organelles that orchestrate the dynamic sorting of hundreds of integral membrane proteins to maintain c...
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Saioa Manzano-Morales @microbiobits.bsky.social · Jun 16
(1/14) ¿Has probado alguna vez a trazar tu árbol genealógico? Es un ejercicio interesante para entender tus raíces, a pesar de que se complica cuantas más generaciones atrás intentas llegar…

Imagínate un árbol así, pero a escala de toda la vida en la Tierra. #HiloDivulgación
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · May 7
Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies
Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Apr 23
Not there yet, but in a few months!
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Apr 22
Congratulations man! Well deserved!
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Apr 10
☕🌊 Coffee too weak? Pour more slowly

A new study found that even a gentle water jet creates avalanches in coffee grounds, boosting mixing and extraction.

Slower pours = stronger brews with less coffee.

🔗 doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

#Coffee #SciComm 🧪
Pour-over coffee: Mixing by a water jet impinging on a granular bed with avalanche dynamics
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. However, issues such as climate change threaten the growth of the temperature-sensitive Coffea arabic
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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Apr 10
Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!

(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)

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IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Apr 10
Featured image with Allan Carrillo-Baltodano

This is an image of a larva of a phoronid worm. To swim, the larva propels itself using cilia 💃

Find out about @allancarbal.bsky.social and his #EvoDevo research on marine annelids:
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Actinotroch larva of a phoronid worm with phalloidin shown in yellow and acetylated tubulin in magenta. Imaged with a Zeiss LSM 800 at 10 x magnification
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Apr 10
Congratulations!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Apr 9
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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ERR_Moody @emoody.bsky.social · Apr 4
Ecstatic to have played a small part in this, we find that the first aerobes predate the GOE by almost a billion years! Photosynthesis implications

Lead by Adrián Davín, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @xrefugee13.bsky.social @tweethinking.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
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Masaru Nobu @masarunobu.bsky.social · Feb 27
New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eukaryotes' closest relatives are internally simple syntrophic archaea
Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly 'Asgard' archaea)1,2. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight3,4 but are distantly ...
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Feb 20
Three-year postdoc in computational evolutionary biology at the University of Glasgow. Ideal for PhD holders in bioinformatics. Applications close on March 18, 2025. More info: https://vibelab.co.uk/ #postdoc
VIBE Research Lab
Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution Research Lab at the CVR, University of Glasgow
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · Feb 18
Job Alert: Senior Research Associate in Phylogenomics @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication - comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with @jameswclark.bsky.social
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Tom Williams @tweethinking.bsky.social · Feb 18
Job announcement: a four-year postdoc position in phylogenomics at the Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath, with James Clark and me (I'm moving to Bath later in the year...). www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
ED12442 Research Associate in Phylogenomics (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath
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Laura Kelly @laura-j-kelly.bsky.social · Feb 17
PDRA opportunity at Kew - chance to work on an exciting new project with a wonderful boss! (speaking from first hand experience ☺️)
Jonathan Wendel @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social · Feb 17
Post-doc alert: Evolutionary genomics of diploidization of polyploids, with a terrific team
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Post-doctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics of Polyploids - Careers | Kew GardensMenuClose menu
We are seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to play a key role in helping to deliver an exciting new 4-year multi-partner BBSRC research project focused on understanding genome evolutio...
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